Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback (R), trails Democratic challenger state Rep. Paul Davis by 10 percentage points, according to a new Rasmussen Reports poll.
The poll, released Tuesday, found Davis, the state House minority leader, leading Brownback 51 percent to 41 percent. Another 3 percent said they preferred another candidate and 5 percent said they were undecided. The poll, by the Republican-leaning Rasmussen, is the latest in a series of signs showing Brownback in serious trouble in his re-election campaign.
Brownback’s little-known primary challenger, Jennifer Winn, did surprisingly well in the primary against the governor, despite her long odds.
Before this Rasmussen poll, the TPM Polltracker average gave Davis a 6 point lead over Brownback.
The poll was conducted among 750 likely voters between August 6 and August 7. It had a margin of error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
The first of many ® governors soon-to-be-shown-the-door-- for their destructive ALEC-driven policies.
jw1
Former back bencher, and now Brown Shirt in chief of Kansas, proves that the Peter Principle is doing fine as long as Fred C. Koch’s kids are alive.
And Rasmussen, to boot. Funny how a couple of weeks ago the NYT ran a poll showing Brownback 13 points ahead, and the GOP just winning everything. I guess they got a dud after they lost Nate Silver.
I guess someone heard they got their credit rating got cut again. Your tax cuts at work folks!
btw, lets hope for some similar love for NE now, the Dems have a really good candidate up there too. And he just got $100k from Buffett to help out too.
Again, don’t read anything into Brownback’s implosion that necessarily translates to other races. Brownback made an awful lot of enemies in the Kansas Republican Party when he stacked the legislature with TPers, cut funding for schools which is the third rail of Kansas politics, and strike three was several of his cronies being caught out in a bunch of shady deals that Brownback facilitated.